Honda is keen to promote the fuel efficiencies of the new City diesel and petrol CVT models, and for good reason. Boasting an ARAI-rated claim of 26 km/l, the new City diesel is India’s most fuel efficient car, bettering its smaller sibling, the Amaze, by 0.2 km/l.

Surprisingly though, the new City diesel is powered by the same engine as the Amaze, and produces the same power and torque outputs. However, the 1.5-liter i-DTEC diesel engine gets to channel its 100 PS and 200 Nm of torque through a 6-speed manual transmission, while the Amaze gets a 5-speed unit.

The diesel City’s fuel efficiency is the talk of the town.

Though the petrol variants of the new City are powered by the same 1.5-liter i-VTEC engine as the previous generation model, Honda has tuned this engine to produce 1 PS and 1 Nm more than the previous gen model (the new City petrol produces 119 PS and 145 Nm of torque).

While the manual transmission is a 5-speed unit, the automatic City has been given a CVT box. At a claimed 18 km/l, the City CVT is 0.2 km/l more efficient than the manual model (which is good for 17.8 km/l).

The variant-wise feature list of the City can be found here. The review of the City Diesel can be read here, while that of the petrol City is available here.